Friends,

 

Try deselecting Enable Tx prior to the start of the next cycle instead of 
hitting the Halt Tx button.  Think of the Halt Tx button as a big angry red 
emergency stop button that slams the brakes on and drops everything.  It drops 
the anchor. 

 

Deselecting Enable TX is not so abrupt, and not so tight on timing: if you 
deselect it at any point in a transmission, the remainder of that transmission 
continues to the end as normal but your next transmission doesn’t happen.  It’s 
more elegant.  More refined.  Less screeching of tyres.  

 

Find this and other pragmatic tips in the FT8 Operating Guide 
<http://www.g4ifb.com/FT8_Hinson_tips_for_HF_DXers.pdf> .

 

73,

Gary   ZL2iFB

 

 

From: WB5JJJ <[email protected]> 
Sent: 18 January 2019 10:12
To: WSJT software development <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] Short Tx inhibits decode...

 

I've noticed that as well.  Been this way for many versions back.  Once the Tx 
cycle has been initiated (i.e. odd or even Tx has started), and if you then 
click Halt Tx, the radio will go to receive, the WF will show the signals, but 
none are decoded for the aborted Tx cycle.  At the start of the next cycle, all 
is normal.  

 

WB5JJJ - George

 

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 3:01 PM Paul Kube <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

 

If I cancel my own transmission right at the beginning of a cycle, I see no 
decodes at all for that cycle.

 

For example, say I'm CQing on even cycles. After a couple, I decide I want to 
stop CQing if I don't get any replies, so I hit Halt Tx as soon as I see the 
list of decodes from a just-finished odd cycle. Maybe I am transmitting for a 
second or two into the adjacent even cycle; but there are never any decodes 
from it at all even when lots of signals are present in the waterfall.

 

Naively, it seems to me that this doesn't need to happen. I often see FT8 
decodes for stations that start late -- as much as 4 seconds late -- in a 
cycle. So why does missing the first second or two prevent decoding anything? 

 

If this could be changed, it would be nice. A few of those wasted 15 seconds 
add up!

 

Thanks, and 73,

 

Paul K6PO

 

 

 

 

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